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Favoriting November 7, 2022

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Artist Track Album Label Approx. start time
Yes  Five Percent for Nothing   Favoriting Fragile  Atlantic  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
 
Kräldjursanstalten  Breda Rafflade Gummidack   Favoriting Voodoo Boogie  Megaphone  0:04:39 (Pop-up)
Crazy Backwards Alphabet  The Welfare Elite   Favoriting Crazy Backwards Alphabet  SST  0:08:36 (Pop-up)
No Safety  I Sleep   Favoriting V/A: The 20th Anniversary of the Summer of Love  Shimmy Disc  0:12:26 (Pop-up)
OWT  Dream Mint   Favoriting Good as Gold  Homestead Records  0:14:36 (Pop-up)
 
Jethro Tull  A Pasion Play (excerpts)   Favoriting A Passion Play  Chryssalis  0:26:30 (Pop-up)
Wild Turkey  Universal Man   Favoriting Turkey  Chrysalis  0:32:38 (Pop-up)
Picchio dal Pozzo  Seppia   Favoriting Picchio dal Pozzo  Grog Records  0:36:47 (Pop-up)
 
Nektar  That's Life   Favoriting Down to Earth  Passport Records  0:49:54 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

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steveo:

Yes
  7:00pm
P-90:

The voyage continues
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Handy Haversack:

It's go time!

Mandlprog! Mandlprog! Mandlprog!

Gotta go chop things, but listening!
  7:01pm
GC in Baltimore:

Whoa. Nice way to open.
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Ciggy:

Oh My
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:01pm
coelacanth∅:

greetings Dave and complicated organisms
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StringOFperils:

Time to get mandlhandled.
Avatar 🤯 7:02pm
TroyD8:

So happy to hear prog on the radio!
  7:02pm
morphe':

Long time FMU listener .. first time VOLUNTARY Prog Rock listener...
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:02pm
chresti:

Hi Dave Complicated show!
Avatar 🤯 7:03pm
redkayak:

Happy Monday all!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:03pm
dale:

hey now. my new favorite show.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:03pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

What's the prognosis, Kenneth?
  7:04pm
P-90:

Prog Heaven! …and “5%” is an inspired choice of “theme”, maybe nothing else says “prog” as definitively AND briefly.
  7:04pm
Tom from Stirling:

Yes, Yes, keep that opening tune. Itsa gooda. We likee.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:04pm
StringOFperils:

I always get Skeleton Crew and Crazy Backwards Alphabet mixed up.
  7:05pm
mic_a:

The hour format caught me out last week. Gryphon... their first two albums were more purely acoustic and early music-faithful, but then they met Yes' manager, who got them all amped and synthed up for "Red Queen." And secured its US release on bubblegummy Bell Records, which still boggles my mind.

But here on the shelf next to Gryphon, I spy another obscurity for possible examination on a future show: Greenslade -- "Spyglass Guest" -- Mercury, 1974. I cannot even venture a description, not having spun it since back then (and I'm afraid to now). They seem to be British, and their logo has Roger Dean-style lettering, so it must be prog, right?

Thanks Dave!
Avatar 7:06pm
Dave Mandl:

Evening, friends! Thanks for joining me.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:06pm
StringOFperils:

Dave Greenslade
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HollyRT:

Hi Dave, hi all! Happy day-before-election-day...
  7:07pm
mic_a:

Yes! (not the band)
Avatar 7:09pm
dday:

I rememeber meeting Andy West when he played with Dixie Dregs. 1980 SUNY New Paltz, Springfest. A friend & I had backstage passes courtesy of our friend Harvey Brooks. Day One: Harvey Brooks Band, David Crosby (scary), & Dave Mason. Day Two; Garland Jeffreys, Dixie Dregs, Greg Kihn Band. West was really pleasant. Posed for a photo with my friend Will & talked music with us for about a 1/2 hour.
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dday:

Anyone been listening to Liquid Tension Experiment?
  7:10pm
?:

Good evening Dave
  7:15pm
Tom from Stirling:

I Sleep, good song for the clock change stupidity.
Avatar 7:16pm
Dave Mandl:

Welcome Holly, dday, mic_a, SoP, P-90, Kenm, dale, redkayak, morphé, coela, Cigg, GC, Handy, steveo!
  7:17pm
morphe':

"This is [happily] not the prog Rock I was thinking of..."
  7:18pm
mic_a:

I'm enjoying this 'later offshoots and mutations' theme.
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:19pm
chresti:

Franco said Drumbo was in Crazy Backwards Alphabet
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:20pm
Aitch:

Progging in
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:20pm
StringOFperils:

John French. That be true.
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:21pm
chresti:

Prog Punk nails it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:21pm
Franco Twinkie:

Dave, Crazy Backwards Alphabet does a great Magic Band without overtly naming the inspiration.
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:21pm
chresti:

Haha
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:22pm
steveo:

lol we can take plenty of technique over here
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:23pm
Webhamster Henry:

Hi Dave! Thanks for the complications.
  7:24pm
P-90:

Reminder: “playing as many notes as possible” is not a ground rule for Prog in any way…
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BLCKDGRD:

Yay! Rip the bandaid off!
  7:24pm
Tom from Stirling:

Dave knows what is Prog and what's not. And whatnot.
  7:25pm
SM32:

Martin Barre
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SeaCreature:

A Passion Play, yeah baby
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dday:

It took me a little bit to get into A Passion Play, but after a few listens, I really liked it
  7:26pm
SM32:

Barriemore!!!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:26pm
StringOFperils:

I just got a free minty replacement copy of Passion Play from someone else's abandoned effects. Mine was long ago converted to Letraset or a sandwich or something.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:27pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

John French ? Wasn't he in the MagicBand ? (Prank injoke reference.)
Yeah been waiting to be schooled in more Contempo Prawgz. There's a band outta Bosotn called TheBunnies - mix Prawg chops & concepts with Humor & stuff... Heck Ween do Prawg - as pastiche I guess but they do it...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:27pm
Aitch:

Reissue of Thick as a Brick sitting next to stereo as yet unplayed.
  7:28pm
mic_a:

For me, Tull was a sometimes wonderful 'electric folk' band (as Rob Young defined it) up through Side 1 of Aqualung. Then on Side 2, they pressed the prog button hard and things were never the same.
  7:29pm
Tom from Stirling:

The early Tull albums were very good. Probably not Prog, though.
  7:30pm
morphe':

hresti:

Prog Punk nails it.

From the kitchen a bit ago I thought there was a miscue and I was hearing "Alternative Ulster" SLF ???
  7:30pm
mic_a:

Does the reissue of Brick have the full newspaper parody cover? That was my favorite part.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:31pm
StringOFperils:

Maybe this was my gateway to Gentle Giant
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:31pm
Jeff Golick:

Irene played ISB's "Darling Belle" earlier today. Big day at FMU for multi-parters.
  7:32pm
P-90:

Tull was brilliant. If some folks like to “make fun”
of them now, it’s largely because they were popular and “overplayed,” like Steely Dan, Fleetwood Mac, Eagles… all bands that arguably would be absolute darlings of the musical hipeoisie if they had been a little more like obscure “cult favorites” and had not over-saturated airwaves and teenage record collections.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:32pm
dale:

i only got into tull around war child. just never got exposed to them before that.
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TroyD8:

Well said @P-90
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:33pm
Aitch:

Yes the full deal @mic_a
  7:33pm
SM32:

Early Tull was Blues then some Folk Rock, then their Prog era and on and on. Some great stuff early on and a treat Live
  7:33pm
morphe':

From the kitchen a bit ago I thought there was a miscue and I was hearing "Alternative Ulster" SLF ???

was:
Kräldjursanstalten Breda Rafflade Gummidack
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dday:

@P-90: totally agree with that analysis.
  7:34pm
mic_a:

There are a lot of back & forth edge cases between electric folk and prog.
  7:34pm
P-90:

Steve Howe famously offered the guitar job in Tull at the same time as Yes, had to pick one…
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dday:

@mic_a: Steeleye Span being among them (at times)
  7:35pm
Peter from Boonton formerly Dover NJ:

Agree with mic-a. Also, Martin Barre on guitar 🎸 is as underrated as Barriemore Barlowe.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:35pm
dale:

this is kinda baker gurvitz army-ish. prog?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:36pm
Chop Scott:

Hello Dave--finally listening live. Cheers!
  7:36pm
mic_a:

"Rocket Cottage"
  7:36pm
morphe':

Always associated HawkWind with bad Prog Rock - only one HW cassette in the London squat '80s .. only later realized they had a wide array of stuff ...
  7:37pm
SM32:

Wild Turkey- Glenn Cornick (Tull)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:37pm
Franco Twinkie:

On Christmas Day 2019 my mom came to dinner for the last time. I had all the records from Xmas 1969 on the kitchen table that she had given me and my sister fifty years before. She picked out Stand Up, with the dye-cut figures in the gatefold. "What's this!?" she said, and proceeded to rip it to pieces. I caught the whole thing on video. I miss my mom, she was hilarious.
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Dave Mandl:

@Chop Scott: Hey! Good to see you!
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Dave Mandl:

@SM32: Correct.
  7:39pm
Gary:

Never get over Tull’s metal Grammy.
Early Tull is fine stuff
Fun show Dave
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dday:

@SM32: John Weathers as well who went on to play with Gentle Giant
  7:40pm
coach32sm:

Now all you need is Bloodwyn Pig!!!!(Mick Abrahams Clive Bunker!!)
  7:40pm
P-90:

There was a lot of “Folk Rock” in Prog from the beginning, if not so much later. So the question “Folk- or Prog- Rock?” is a more moot than some might think. This gets back to the earliest proto-prog bands like The Nice being very English Folk-Rock friendly.
Avatar 7:40pm
dday:

Andy Pyle was in Bloodwyn Pig at one time as well. Went on to play with The KInks
  7:40pm
coach32sm:

@dday: yeah for sure just making a Tull reference
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:40pm
neil quarantino:

Who was on vocals on that Wild Turkey tune?
Avatar 🤯 7:41pm
redkayak:

This is awesome...
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Dave Mandl:

@neil: Gary Pickford-Hopkins. Good singer!
  7:42pm
morphe':

Encyclopedia Dave !!!!
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dday:

@coach32sm: sure. It's fun to track the paths of many of the musicians though different bands & styles of music they've played :)
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

@P-90 7:32: You hit the nail on the head is the thing : Forced exposure ...hell, forced *feeding* (always find the Food Diet metaphor serviceable for Musics...) is a huge part of that.
Tull actually less exposed than all that YachtRawk MOR featurelessly produced 1970s product.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:42pm
Rick from SC:

So Gongish
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...tho I'm good with the Dan generally. Somehow.
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SeaCreature:

Don’t think I knew enough at the time to appreciate wakeman’s band choices, like Gary P-H
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:44pm
Franco Twinkie:

RR, That was a nice touch you dropped on Marty's show the other night. My mom gave me Forever Changes for Christmas in 1967.
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StringOFperils:

I love this. It's hard to market an SUV with this. Which is great.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:44pm
dale:

i like what he did on strawbs witchwood album.
  7:45pm
P-90:

Adjective of the Day: “Gongish”
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neil quarantino:

Thanks @Dave. The voice is so familiar.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:46pm
dale:

stringofperils - unless it's that jeep which is just a fiat panda from italy.
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dday:

@dale: I saw Strawbs several times during the Hero & Heroine / Ghosts tours. Excellent live band
  7:46pm
djsheilab:

This is brilliant. Thanks Dave!
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chresti:

Fix It Again Tony
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Webhamster Henry:

Finally! Got that recorder obligato on my Prog Bingo Card.
  7:47pm
mic_a:

Is that Wyatt? Sure sounded like him.
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chresti:

Yeah Zappa
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dale:

dave cousins was in beacon (?) a few years ago as an acoustic strawbs things but sold out so i missed out.
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dday:

@dale: yeah. Strawbs did a 50th anniversary thing in Montclair,NJ awhile back. I too missed it
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:49pm
coelacanth∅:

i think, compositionally, a passion play is weak for early jethro tull.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:50pm
coelacanth∅:

(or... i agree)
  7:50pm
mic_a:

Then again, minus the folk, there was a real interesting late 60s primeval swamp of late psych, acid rock, early prog, proto metal all bubbling away together.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:51pm
Ciggy:

Very limited exposure to Strawbs except for Diwn by the Sea of course
Loved catching the song at night from WNEW-FM
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dday:

Ahhh Nektar. So sad at Roye's passing
  7:51pm
mic_a:

Strawbs another strong back & forth folk/prog case.
  7:51pm
Tom from Stirling:

Acoustic version of The Strawbs played a small theatre in Boonton, NJ of all places. Dave Cousins, Dave Lambert and Chas Cronk....so very good. They hung out afterwards. A good night
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:52pm
StringOFperils:

I'm progged out. But enjoyed it. Thanks, in 11/8 time.
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coelacanth∅:

strawbs, i'd say, folk/prog/pop
  7:52pm
Peter from Boonton formerly Dover NJ:

Dave: not for nothing, your show needs to be 2 or 3 hours.
  7:53pm
P-90:

Nektar very notable as one of the very first wave of bands that followed on the heels of the success of Yes and Genesis in the 70’s. In the same phalanx as Camel, Le Orme, etc.
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Coach32sm:

@dday: Funny Ive seen hundreds of bands and Strawbs were one of my favorite but I thought they were horrible live and I like almost anybody live especially then when everything looked and sounded good most of the time.
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Dave Mandl:

@Peterf: Aw, thanks. I don't know if I could mine that much stuff!
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dale:

yesh - one hour is not enough.
  7:53pm
P-90:

Also note this Camel track is on the “poppier” side of Prog
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chresti:

Machine folk/prog
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Dave Mandl:

Sorry, @Peter, not @Peterf
  7:54pm
P-90:

I meant “this NEKTAR track” is poppier prog
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MarciB:

Hey @Dave Mandl- been listening since your first IC show and loving it. Mondays are arguably the best day on FMU -and this show is the icing on the prog-cake!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:55pm
dale:

dave - just pick longer songs if that's possible.
  7:55pm
Tom from Stirling:

You know what they say...less is more.
  7:55pm
P-90:

Very Bruford-Squire influenced rhythm section
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dday:

@P-90: this whole LP (Down to Earth) is less "proggy" then Remember the Future or Tab in the Ocean. Recycler was a whole other affair.
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Ciggy:

Saw Nektar at the Palladium in 1975?
Their light show was fantastic
But then again I was very lit up
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:57pm
coelacanth∅:

with a 2-hour show you could program toward the 2nd 1/2 to have longer tracks i.e. a whole side of thick as a brick, tarkus, etc
  7:57pm
mic_a:

Wandering deeply into my personal teenage taxonomy, I classed bands like Tull and Procol Harum as 'Dickens Rock' -- for the way they seemed to postulate rock as it might have been playing in the 19th century. This was as opposed to the futurist approach of, uh, Yes, King Crimson Mk II, etc, etc.
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dday:

@Ciggy: same tour Capitol in Passaic. Trippy fun ;)
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Ciggy:

I liked Nelly the Elephant from Down to Earth
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chresti:

An hour is good, plenty of time for the fast playing
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Malcontent:

I love that the man who played George Jefferson was a huge Nektar fan...

ultimateclassicrock.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:58pm
Kelly Jones:

I love you Dave.
  7:58pm
lawrence:

Sherman Hemsley was a big Nektar fan. Here he is dancing to Nektar on The Jeffersons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKHY3pMEUJs
  7:58pm
mic_a:

Thanks Dave. You select the listenable gems, so we don't have to.
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:58pm
chresti:

Thanks Dave!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:58pm
dale:

i know i could stand a salute to mike pinder when it comes to the mellotron.
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Franco Twinkie:

Thanks Dave. We're old people, so we like note cramming.
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dday:

Some of the NEKTAR guys lived in Dover,NJ for a bit. An old drummer friend knew them then
  7:59pm
bleubombersune:

Dave a pleasure to ride the prog show All stay safe and be well
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:59pm
steveo:

thanks, Dave; I had a good time
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Dave Mandl:

Thanks, all! Have a great week.
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Ciggy:

Very yrue Lawrence
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

~ TY Always DJ DaveM ~
  8:00pm
pot8o:

thanks dave!
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coelacanth∅:

Thanks Dave!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:00pm
Handy Haversack:

Thanks, Dave!
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